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a austin fills the streets!
vol. 2, no. 9
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STAFF
EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
Steve Akin
Stan Bear
Kelly K:iy
Enrique Lopez
Art Morris
Arnie Fleischmann
Billy Frazier
R.H.
D~vid Morr is
Harvey Neville
Will van Overbeek
Amme Hogan Alan Pogue
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REPRESENTATIVE Art Morris
THE COVER finds Gay Austinites filling the
streets in celebration of Jay Freedom Week .
The Gay Pride March began ~t n~on , June 24
and proceeded no!"th up Congress Aven1e and
around the Gover nor ' s Mansion to Wooldridge
Park for a r ally . Photo by Harvey Neville:
stor y and more photos on page 12.
NEWSBRIEFS are taken in part from The Advocat
e , Gay Community News (Bost on) and The
Body Poli tic (canada) .
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the writer or editor, and not necessarily
those of Gay Community Services nor tne
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Upfront
Ginny Apuaao • hould be proud of gay Texan• .
When the openly gay c andi date for Nev York's
Stat e Ass embly dellvered the keynote address
a t Texas Cay Conference V last month In Dallas,
she s ald tha t the gay movement today reminds her
of the French during WWI.
Aa Apuzzo e~pl a ined, the Fr ench we1 e totally convlnced
tha t they wrlUld defeat the Germans s imply
bece uc:e French soldiers were overflowing wlth "elan".
"Etan" ha 11 no Engllah cognate, but it can be tran1-
l a ted roughly as " ardent courage''•
Anywa y, tha French ma rched off to the battlefield
a rmed with heavy shi eld1 of " a rdent courage". The
Cer .. n1 took machine guns,
We know what happened t • the French in WWI.
We al10 know wha t happened in Miami . St . Pa ul ,
Wichita and ~ugene. To Apuzzo , every nev gay rights
referendum is another blast of the homophobic machine
gun . She sees that the gay movement rises courageously
--bri .. ing to the soul with elan--trying to ahield
itself frOll every bla1t, only to fall in defeat.
She worries that each time we rally in desperation
that we do so st the expense of forming ALTERNATIVE
STRATEGI ES .
Apuzzo says i t '• time that we start channeling our
photo by Will van Overbeek
What does Anita have to sing about? See page 14.
JULY 1978 GAY AUSTIN 3
anergia• i nto nev anlpoa itive directions ,
She should be pr oud of gay Texans becau•e here in
Tex• • we a re beginning to do just that. Read on page
7 about t he Texa• Cay Task Forc e ' a pl an for the up•
coming legi•l a tive 1es1ion (mor e det ai l• on TCTF' a
•trategy next 1110nth~ See pages 18·19 for more neva
of Texas Cay Conference V in which gay Texan• from
al l acro•s the sta t e came together to learn from
and i nspire one another. It ls just tha t •ort of
tightly knit organi zation be i ng developed by
'fCTF which 111 one of the keys to the alternative
stra t egies advocated by Apuz70.
Houston ce l ebr a t ed Gay FreedOCll Week ~n grand
• tyle with ToV1'\ Meeting I (•ee page 7). Other
Texas cities t ake note:
Here in Auatin v e had the bigge•t Cay Pride
Week ever -- with eve rything froa a Gay Pride
March and Rally to poetry readings and a daace.
Host of the f e•tivitiea were arranged by the
Austin Coalition for Hu.an Right•, the new
and very active group whicb gave us tbe l reakf
ast Festival for Huaan iighta in Hay (•ee
inside for photos and stories from both events).
Cay Texan• have really t aken the initiative in
the l ast two months, Let's keep going strong.
··Kelly lay
contents
VIEWPOINT
Gay political strategy at the crossroads
by Arnie Fleischmann ................. ............. 4
Courting human rights
by Art rt.orris ......................................... 5
Corning out at TGC v
by R • H ..................................................... 6
NEWS
State briefs ................................................. ?
National briefs ......................................... .... 8
International bricfs ................................... 21
Calendar 24
FEATURE ARTICLES
Gay a~d ProJd: Julio Coreno , ~ farmworker
by David Morris with Enrique Loper.. ...... 1 O
Gay Pride Weeks gay austin in celebration
by Art Morris ........................................ 12
Bac~s tage with Anita
by Harvey Neville .... ............................. 14
Breakfast Festival for Human Rights
photos by Alan Pogue .............. .... .. ......... 16
TGC V
by Kelly Kay ............................ ............. 18
Play ballt gay athletic clubs form
across the state
by Billy Fraz.ier ................................... 2)
4 GAX AUSTIN JULY 1978 viewgoint
Goy political strategy at the crossroads
l y AUii PLllSCllHAD
Anita Bryant'~ vi•it to Austin is behind us. So are
the party pri•aries and the county conventiona 1 aa
vell a1 a aeries of referenda accross the country.
The11 events suggest several courses vhlch the gay
rights imov .. ent might follow in Texas and Travis
Co•nty.
In a a1n1e. ve have reached a fork in the road and
nave tvo strategies to chose from , The first would
have u1 play &)'llbolic politics, a sure vay to raise
iaaues and consciousness. Tne other adopts a imore
lov-key atratagy. What can be said for each?
Tbo1e vho pr090te a)'llbolic politics favor auch actions
a1 attempting to repeal the state's sodo•y law1. Repealing
1ection 21.06 vould undoubtedly be a great
moral and 1ymbolic victory. Those vho favor thia
1t4'ategy, bovever, 1hould be prepared to demonstrate
that attempting to repeal these lavs during the next
Legislature will actually yield positive result•
than
The situation is a011evhat like .. rijuana lava. If
few people are convicted for violating them, will
trying to repeal them bring the self •righteous out
of their closets? Will these people p~esaure for
enforcment of lavs which are currently ignored?
W1ll theypressure for even more restrictive legisla•
tion like that advocated by the Travis County Republican
c~nventlon's resolution on hiring gay teachers
? These are question• which the proponents of
aymbolic politics mu~t grapple w1th before embarkln&
on their campa tgn,
Many would c all the second strategy accomodat1on1st.
Its supporters would like to avoid symbolic issues
and concentrate in1tead on building alliance• with
office holders, bureaucrats, and interest groups.
Thi1 1trategy von't make the evening nev•casta and
.. y prove incapable of maintaining the support of
tho1e vho c an't be full-time gay activi•ta, Tho1e
who favor thia approach villhave to respond to thoae
who charge that they are taking a go-slov, conservative
atanc1 that compromises gay rights.
Which shall it be? Personally, I tend to favor the
aecond strategy for aeveral reasons. First of all,
ve cannot count on the Supreme Court to overturn
the atat• aodotmy lava. A series of cases from Texas,
Virginia, and North Carolina all 1ugge1t thia. We
.. y be able to count on the court to guarantee the
rlght1 of free speech ind aaaociation guaronteed by
the Fir1t A .. end.ent, But that leaves the question•
nf individual rights to be decided through the legisl
ative proceaa .
Second , ve can't win the 1ywbolic i1sues yet. Ask•
lng the Legi1lature to repeal the aodo•y lav1 next
1e11ion is like asking the Railroad Coe1111i11ion to
favor consumers instead of oil and gas producers.
Why won't they do it? Because few. if any, legialatora
have anything to gain by supporting repeal.
Politicians avoid risk, and our t a skl.& to convince
tbem not only tha t gay people are not a riak, but
alao we may be an important political aaaat to them.
Whit gay Tex1n1 need to do la cultivate friends in
a Legisl ature which appears as if it vi l l be more
progressive than the l ast. Having cultivaled such
friends. ve need to get them in a position where
they rely on us for campaign workers. cont1ibulions,
and votes. Onlv then will we be able to counl on
them when the golag gets tough. Such a strategy
seems reasonable in light of what l\ippened in the
U. s. House of representatives when 1 was working
there Last year. When an oral vote on a gay rights
question was called, we, von. When a roll call vas
called for on the same question, we lost We must
give politicians something to stick their necks out
for
Opposing our enemies will not gain political victories.
It's simply not enough to oppose Mayor
McClellan for her conduct in last year's fight over
a fair housing ordinance for Austin. Our task de•
mands more than confronting del~s•tes to the Travis
County Democratic Convention with resolutions on
gay rights. While such efforts are a necessary
part of an overall strategy, they should get second
bill1ng to coalition building and public education
efforts. We must influence the recruitment,
funding and campaignin~ of candidates.
Among the activities we might protDOte are forums at
vhlch candidates or thelr representatives can speak
wlth gav voters Endorsements and accompanying
press relea~es are valuable ln building alllances .
So is the moni toring of votes and statemen t s by local
office holders. Congresspeople and their staffs
continJed on ~•~e 6
JULY 1978 GAY A UST...,I. ,,N_ _S. ...
Courting human rights
By ART P«>RIUS
the gay men and lesbians of Eugene, Oregon are the
latest to suffer the blow of the referendUG1. Question
51 on the ballot asked if the ordinance which
protected the rights of gay men and l esbians should
be repealed. The law gave protection in the areas
of employment, public accomodations, and housing.
It said that one's sexual orientation alone was not
a reaaonable cause for exclusion or discrimination,
The ordinaGce was repealed by a 2-to-l vote.
Eugene is the fourth area in l eas than a year to
subject gay men and lesbians and their rights to a
popularity contest. Dade Cnunty, Florida was the
first of the municipalities to allow the civil
rights of a minority group to be decided by the ma jority
ln a popular election. As you may remember.
Anita 8ryent Green lent her name and energy to this
event.
Aft er s four month campaign of fear and hate by the
organization ca lled "Save Our Children," that ordinance
was repealed. The Dade County Coalition and
the Hl ami Victory Pa rty both ran tremendous campaigns
aimed at educating the public. But their
campaigns didn ' t prove strong enough to combat tha t
moat unholy alliance of Southern Bap tista and conservative
Roman Ca tholics. the referendum passed
by a 2- to•l margin on June 7, 1977.
The call for referenda was spearheaded last sU1Der
by various conservative. charismatic and fundamental
r aligioua and r lght-vl ng gr oups. St. Paul ia tha
city tha t vaa forced to ho l d the first referend11111
after Dade County. The St, Paul Citi z ~ns for Hw:aan
Rtghta was formed to educate the people of t he city
about the referendum and about gay people. The St.
Paul referendum passed by a 2-to-l margin in the Ap•
r i l 25, 1978 e lec t ion .
Tbe referendum in Wichita , Kanaaa marked the greateat
defeat that we have bad to f ac e . The Homophile Al-
11..tnce of Sedgwick County worked hard and long to educate
the public; overall the ran an e ffective campaign,
Unfortunately, they were dealing with one of
th• moat conservative areas of the country. Liquorby-
the-drink is still a major area of controveray in
K.anaaa. On May 9, 1978 the voter1 of Wichita voted
5-to-l to repeal the ordinance that protected the
gay p•ople of that city.
But it was the Eugene defeat that was the greatest
1urpri1e of all of the referenda. Oregon is tradi·
ttonally liberal, and Eugene ia an urban area vith
atrong overall support for the rights of lesbian•
and gay men. Jerry Weller, co-chairperson of the
finance committee of the Eugene Citlzen1 for Huaan
Rights, said "Civil righta have never been a matter
of popularity. No minority ever received civil
right1 from a vote. " Weller said that we have only
the courts to look to, The E.C.H.R. will be in court
to contest some of the tactics of VOICE, the conaervetive
faction oppoalng the civil rights ordinance,
Although their appears to be no imaiediate relief,
groupa from each of the cities are fighting in the
courta on grounda tha t the righta of a •inority group
cannot be put to a popular vote--and that to do 10
ia a violation of the conatitutional rigbta of all
people.
At the queation of the constitutionality of th• varioua
referenda, one ia reminded of Martin Nie1tOeller,
a Proteatant clergyman. He waa imprisoned for apeak•
ing out againat Hitler and survived a concentration
camp where 76,000 Jews and 15,000 children were slaughtered.
He described how it happened: " ... the Mada
. .. came for the Coaaunista, but I didn't speak up
because I waan't a COtlllluniat; then they caae for th•
Jews, but I didn't apeak up because I wasn't a JflV.
The they came for the trade unionista , but I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then
they came for the CatholicsJ but I didn't apeak out
because I vas a Protestant . Then they ca•e for •e,
but there was no one left to speak for me ."
What Pastor Niemoellor a.itted is that firat
the Nazis came for the homosexuala and other
"undesirables." But before that, they created
a climat e in which the escalating peraecu-t
iona -- the rounding up of the "undesirables"
-- would be poaaible, while ateadily
widening the devouring definition of that
word.
(from Gay Sunahine, with per8leaion)
In all, what the courts decide for Dade County . St.
Paul, Wichita and Eugene they will decide for tba
whol e country. The deciaion will initially affect
the gay men and lesbians of this country, but it
will ultimatel1 affect everyone. The courts have
the power: will the work of Hartin Luther Xi ng and
Su~an B. Anthony go the way of the Dade County Coa lition,
the Eugene Citi zens for Huaian Rights, the
St. Paul Citizens for Human Rights, and the KOlll>phila
Alliance of Sedgwick County?
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6 GAY AUSTIN JULY 1978
Coming out at TGC V
Bv R. H.
The TeYas Gay Conference Five in Dallas in m·dJunc
was an lncrcdible awakening for me. It was
the first gay activ{st meetllljl had ever part[•
cipated in, and I was evtre~ely apprehensive a·
bout attending. My reasons for attending were
threefold: I) t~ hopefully meet a "higher class"
of gay people than I had been meeting at Austin
ba rs and patties; 2) lo see wh' the activ ist leaders
wetc; and 3) to benefit and learn form the
various workshops offered.
The first of my expectations was realized a t the
kick-off cocktail party Friday night when I spot•
ted someone standing alone in the shadows looking
as forlorn and out of place as I felt at that mom~
nt. His opening coawent was to compliment the
graphics on the cover of the official program we
were all dutifully clutching. The cover design
of a vortex with a superimposed number "S" proved
to be an apt symbol for the conference, a heady
barrage of dizzying stimuli and sensations which
affected each of us at different levels of con sciousness
during the course of the weekend.
Beginning Saturday morning with the presentation
of keynote speeches, I began to fulfill my second
expectat ion concerning what type of leadership we
have at the forefront of Texas gay activism. The
speakers repre~ented all colors, shades and textures
you could possibly imagine. They were witty, touching,
eloquent knowledgeable , informed, caustic,
and inspiring- -but most of all they were committed:
committed to giving each one of us a sense of pride
ln belng gay. They challenged us to stand up for
our civil rights--if not as activists. then by boy·
cotting products and e~tablish~ents whose endorsers
or policies seek to dlscri~inate against us.
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Hy th L rd ~ .. pee tat4v, .,ar realized ... t.cn the w..Hkshops
began on Satr1day afLernoon. The workshops vAried
in G atlty, but the nnes I-attended, gay physical
heal th cue: the law as it affects hon1osex11sls,
and ~AY 1 teralure and movies, were lnformatLve and
practical. I was most impressed by the profe •• sional
ism of some of these presentations.
As coincidence would have it , the person I meL at
the cocktail party Friday n1ght was from Austin
a l eo. We spent the entire weekend together, sharing
both the conference experiences and each other's
company. We shared our innermost thoughts, desires,
fears and self-doubts. In many ways he was the most
intellectual and stimulating person I have met in
tne gay lifestyle. Toward the end of the conference
I remember fervently wishing that the weekend would
never end; that my consciousness and sensitivities
;,ro~ld never stop eYpanding.
The theme of the conference was "Setting S tes
on Human R ghts" and I believe I left Dallas
having set my sights on new values,beliefs, priorities
and goals that I had not been forced to
confront before. I have never felt so much pride
in bein8 gay a~ l experienced that weekend Ln Dallas.
TGC V was everything I had hoped for, and
more. I made a special friend whose self-revela-t
ions significantly altered the way I perceive gay
relationships. I am grateful to him and to the
sponsors and leaders of TGC V for restoring pride
I had lost, raising my consciousness and providing
me with memories of a weekend during which all those
who attended walked a bit taller in the sun.
CAY STRATEG~ • , • continued from p~gc 4
can be very heavily influenced by surveys and letter
writing campaigns Equally important is the development
of cont acts within government agencies a t all
levels. Re111ember, it waa one of those often-maligned
f ederal bureaucrats who wrote regulations las t year
which made gay couples eligible for federal housing,
We need to build on the positive spirit cha r ac terized
by the Breakfast Fes tival for Human Right~ an4
the Gay Freedom Week Celebrations_ To do so means
putting off the ~ymbolic issues until we are more
ce rta in of winn ing without at irring up opponents
who can win ;m the short run bec ause fea r is on their
side. It 's too late in 1978 to develope a fullacale
1trategy for the November elections. There 11
plenty of time, though, to begin recruiting candi·
datea, funds, and worker1 for next spring ' s city
council election1.
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FAR::N'!'Hc .. _. :JEC!CES 'TYRANNY C? .r..~.;c:c:-~ ·
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The Houston Gay Political Caucus sponsored Town Meeting
I in Houston on Sunday, June 25. The Gay Chicano
Organisation, the Lesberadas, a lesbian alliance, as
well as a society for gay civil engineers and The
Executive and Professional Association of Houston partlcipaled.
Former Texas gubernatorial candidate Frances "Susy"
Farenthold was treated to a two-minute-long standing
ovation by more thAn 3,000 gays who attended Town
Meeting I after she condemned religious fanaticism
against homoaexuals and urged gays to demand their
"full human rights ."
Fa renthold . formerly of Corpus Christi and now the
president of Well• College in Aurora, N.Y. was the
keynote speaker ,
"Racism \5 not a state issue , just like parenthood
11nd childbearing a re not state h "ues." she said.
"Human rights is a human issue."
Reca lling a ~peech l ast week by Carter, Farenthold
said the president had vowed to continue calling for
human r1ghls ln such countries as South Africa . Yet ,
she said, "lneq ua l lty and basic human Lnjustice" run•
rampant 1n this ce untry,"
Farenthold said human rights in America are subjected
to the '' t yranny of t he majority" and t he"tyranny of
the state,"
Speaking to the gay community meeting in Houston,
Farenthold said "The rights of this large minority
can no longer be tramp led upon. " She stopped several
times on her way out a rear door of the arena te wave
to the crowd which cheered for more than two ainutes.
Once the 1veech waa over, Town Meeting I turned into
what one l eader described as a "strictly business "
meeting of th• gay coo.unity. Al l manner of issues
were debated, from the rights of transsexua ls to all
eged police brutality leve l ed against gays.
Several leaders of Houeton's l esbian co .. unlty stood
to decl are that the Houston co11111unity of gay men had
l argel y ignored women ln the pl anning of the meeting,
which CPC leaders hope will be an annual event and
in gay i asues in &ener al. '
TGTF PLANS TO FIGHT
DISCRIMINATORY LEGISLATION
DURING 66TH SESSION
A five-point plan waa introduced a t the Texaa Gay
Conf erence Five , J une 10, i n Dallas. The plan outl
i ne• how the pre1ent Texas law , which criminali zea
ho010s exwal conduct, will be r epealed and how Texae
Gaya v ll l pr event discriminatory l egi alat ion f rom
pass i ng in the upc oming 66th l egis l a tive s ession.
JULY 1978 GAY AUS1'IN 7
The plan calla for:
1) continual identification of human rights supporters
in all regions of Texas,
2) building coalitions with groups of traditionally
underrepresented persons and with persons who sup·
port our push for equality .
3) a comprehensive co111111unications network aimed at
grass roots involvement with local lawmakers,
4) establtsh~ent of an Austin office and a lobbying
team
5) $25.000 price t ag to implement the plan.
According lo Kathy Deilcch, moderato'r of the Texas
Gay Task Fnrce , which sponsored Texas Gay Conference
Five and d1afted the plan for the upcoming legislative
session gays will be visible and active in
Austin during the session.
TCTF issued a statement at the conference which
further explains the ir po1ition:
We will be visible and active in Austin during the
next l egisl ative aeasion . The 1977, 65th s ession
was a forevarnin& to us . Be reminded tha t tha t sea aion
1aw the firet diacriminatory legi1lation aimed
a t Texas gays, a measure to prohibit gay groups f roa
being recognized and fro• aaing state college and
university ca.pus facilities. Certainly such legislation
waa uncon1titutiooal and improper; however,
ther e are legia l ators vhe feel tha t ''the perverts
must be kept in the closet."
The Ta1k Force ls preparing to prevent additional
legi1lat i on of this type . An example thi1 next ses•
1ion, commencing January, 1979, may very well be
a imed at prohibiting gay teachers and their supporters
from teaching and to allow local school district1
to engage in "witchhunts" to determine who
ia and i an 't gay. Similar legi1lation has been introduced
and /or passed in s everal other states.
In April . about 30 Task Poree members met in Nev
Braunf ela Texas to l ay the gro1.mdvork for this legi1la
tive push . At present, we are ga thering da ta r el
a t ed to the legisla ture . tha t is, learning more
about the process of legisla tion . t alking with key
suppor t er1 and more importantly . t esting the vat era
vith l egi1lators to l earn hov they view our concern
for the .. actment of new l egial a tioa vbich will
single out Texas gays for ha r assment and discrimina
tion . The active fundr a iaing campaign to ra i se
$25 .000 wi l l begin l a t er thia auaeer.
we believe we mu1t begin our work ear l y, so aa to
deter aod/or prevent action aimed a t pus hing ua back
i nto the cloaeta . We wil l not sit back and wait to
••• wha t certain interest groups and their l awcmaker1
have pl anned for u1 . Texas lesbians and gay men are
on the move.
8 GAY AUSTIN JULY 1978
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DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUND GUILTY
OF VIOLATING GAY'S CIVIL RIGHTS
After deliberating seven hours, a federal jury found
all four defendants guilty Ln the trial of present and
former county law enforcement officials of conapiracy
to violate the civil rights of an admitted gay man and
transvestite. Special Justice Department prosecutor
Ralph Martin. in his closing arguments, accused the
detJuty sheriffs of causing "an orgy of terror" for Lee
Roy Watson, 24. who prefers to be known as Linda Sue
Jackson
Watson is seeking more than $2 million in damages from
the three men and one weman on trial. A fifth defendant
will be tried separately.
Watson was arrested twice in February and Hay 1977 on
1everal miadeaeanor charges, including criminal impersonation
while working as an Avon salesperson. At the
-~~e of the eecond arrest, he testified that he was
forced to appear nAked before several woaaen in Malvern
City Jail as he vas being teased by one of the defendants
. Later ha vas beaten vith a nightatick, according
to testimony by eyewitnesses.
On June 25, Wataon testified that one of the defendant•
took him to a remote part of Hot Springs. beat him with
nightsticks and a flaahlight, pouring turpentine in his
anu1, and cut his hair, injuring his ear in the process.
They than set tvo Doberman pinschera to attack
hiM, reaulting in bites to his wrists and inner thigha:
one of the defendants subs~uently poured alcohol on
the vounds. Watson alao said that one of the defendants
asked to be fallated by him, but later dropped t he request.
Watson was hospitalized for ten days for treatment of
wounds following the incident, causing his attending
physician to call the injuries the most severely beaten
patient he had treated in 25 yeara.
U.S. Dlst1ict Court Judge Oren Harris co111111ented "It
would have been very difficult to arrive at any other
verdict. It must be made clear that the Constitution
of the United States is for all citizens." Harris released
all four defendants on bond pending sentencing
later thi• month,
'QUEER AND LESBIAN' TEACHERS
TARGETED IN OKLAHOMA
Me.ber1 of Oklahoaia's lover house voted 88-2 to permit
school boards to fire or refuse to hire persons who
have engaged in "public homosexual conduct." lep. John
M.iftks (D-Huskogee) vho authored the bill maintained
that with his bill, districts could dilmiss "people afflicted
with this degenerate problem, .. people who are
mentally deranged in this way," When asked whether hie
bill vould anly to both aexes, Monka replied: "It
vil 1 cover both queers and lesbians." The bill nov goea
before the Oklahoma s enate for action. The Senate version
is sponaored by sen. Mary Helm, a member of the
John Birch Society.
The measure defines "p11blic homosexual conduct" as
" advocating, citing. imposing, encouraging, or prompt·
ing public or private homosexial activity in a manner
that creates a substantial risk that such conduct vill
come to the attention of school children or school employees."
By such definition, even heterosexual teachers
who speak out in behalf of gay rights could be li·
able for their jobs.
NATIONAL LESBIAN FEMINIST ORGANIZATION
FOUNDED IN LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, March 17-19: the Pounding Convention of
the National Lesbian Feainist Organization. Lesbians
from all reaches of the country g~thered that weekend
to form an organization coa:mitted to dealing, from a
feminist platform, with the oppression of lesbians in
all of its manifestations. These manifestations were
seen as including. but not being limited to, discrimination
based on sexual preference, sex, race. class.
age and physical disability, The organization also
committed itself to education and the development of
lesbian culture.
On of the more significant affirmative votes, from the
south's viewpoint, was a motion amending the convention
rules to allot an equal number of votes to each
of the five regions present. Another important resolution
opened membership to all lesbians and wo~en identified
women, reflecting consideration £or lesbians
who remaln closeted.
Race and class were strongly addressed in a resolution
which calls for 50 percent representation by ~-omen of
color and a balance of class backgrounds on state and
national level planning and decision-making coanittees.
Delegates to the meeting voted lo hold • nat tonal r atifying
aonvention of the organization in Spring, 1979
ln St. Paul-Minneapolis. Slate conventions of all NLFO
members are to be held in the interim t o encou1age
stronger grass mots pa rtlcipation and Lo provide a
forum for discussion of iss~es. Delegates to the naLional
conference will be elected at the stale conferences
on the basis of one delegate for each ten qual i ·
fied participants.
Delegates to the founding conference and all other interested
women who meet the membershlp requirements may
also form local groups. Membership dues are determined
on a 1liding scale basis of $1.00 per $1,000 of gross
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tions rhe member' are of various colors and class
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c-__ -\_ ~r SUPPCR~ EX-:ov~R
San Diego (California) Superior Court Judge Bvron F
Li ndsley June 6 ordered Oenease Conley to pay $100-amonth
support to Sherry 0. Richardson. Before the two
women participated in a Holy Union ceremony a t the
Metropolitan Community Church in Feb ruary, they had
si~ned an agreement that Richardson would perform the
dutLes of a ''v i Ce," while Conley vould provide finan·
c isl support.
Afte r the rela tionship termlnated r ecently, Richa re•
son, vho said she had given up her job in Nev York to
be with Con ley. fil ed suit for support and the division
of property acouired by the couple during their
relationship Conley, who wa~ not represented by
counsel1 agreed in court lo the support agreement,
wh ich will continue indefinitely uni•~~ it ia niodlfl
ed bv the court or ano ther judic1al procedure .
Jud~e L ndsley accepted the couple s a ~reem ent on the
basis of the Ma 1vln•Triola decision in which the Cali f ornia
Supreme Cnurt ruled that there can be property
and support agreementl and obliga tions between urunarried
people . That ca~e involved actor Lee Marvin and
his common law wife. The Conley-Richa rdson case appears
to be the first gay couple test case of that
precedent.
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Singers Joan Baez , Harry Chapin , Peter Yarrow and
Holly Near drev a near-capacity crowd of 5,800 to the
Santa Monica (California) Civic Auditorium on June 7
to raise funds to fight the Briggs I nitiative battle
looming in the Golden State, The event, sponsored by
the New Alliance for Cay Equality (New AG£) of Los An·
geles, raised an estimated $70,000.
At two performances marking the first anniversary of
the defeat of gay rights in DAde County (florida), the
cr~wds, moved to tears , offered standing ovations.
Nearly half the audience consisted of women , a first
for any gay rights fundraiaing event, All four performe
rs donated their talents to the successful concert .
The even ing's only jarring moment came ,betveee shows
when a bomb threat was announced, and the second shov
had to be delayed for 45 minute&.
Two l aw suits a re underway challenging the so-called
Bri~g~ inlrlatlve, which vnuld require the flring
of gay educators and those vho " advocate" the gay lifestyle,
Filing its au t t soon a ft e r the Ca liforllia secre t a ry of
st ate announced tha t the Briggs initi ative had enough
val id signatures to qaalLfy for the November ballot,
Gay Rights Advocates challenged the initiative on behalf
of t he Cal ifornia Federation of Teachers.
Cay Rights Advocates charges that the initiative uncon1titutionally
violates protections of due proce11 ,
equal protection, privacy and free expression . The
1uit alao charges that if the initiative is allowed
on the ballot, it would have a chilling effect ou
teachers ' first ... ndeent right• to apeak aaainst it
because, under the initiative'• advocacy provisions,
they might be subject to teraination from employ•
•ent should the initiative pass .
The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan C01111U11ity
Churches (M:C), represented by attorney John B Wall,
also filed 1uit in an attempt to have the Briggs
initiative removed from the ballot. The M:C suit
claims tha t the initiative, should it become l av , vio·
lates sepa r a t i on of church and ,tate ptinciples. Theoretically,
gay teachers who wanted to keep their jobs
would be forced to avoid attending HCC 1ervices because
they ~ight be identified as gay and therefore fired
from their jobs. Thia, contends MCC violates thetr
right of religious fre edo•.
PR:::;::·:·:-ER.u.:;s ·:c:-!:: :'(' REFl'SE
OR!:C»H:cr. :'C PRACTICING HOl'f.C.SEXUALS
SAN DIECO ·- After extensive co .. itted debate , the full
1e1sion of the General Asaambly of the United Presby·
terisn Church voted not to ordain practicing homosex·
uals as ministers in their church.
Delegates from the assembly c l•i• this action folloved
years of study concerning social . psychological, aa
well as religious aspects of homosexu4lity, and p re~·
ious to the vote. found themselves sha r ply divided as
to the matter of ordination.
A church co111111lttee ia~ued tvo r eports that disagreed on
the ordination question but concu~fed in several key
10 GAY AUSTIN JULY 1978
Gay and proud
Julio coreno: a farmworker
By DAVID l«lRRIS
Aa you drive 1out h from Aus t in to t he valley in April,
the f ields and brssh along t he sides of the
highway change by s ubtle steps from nearly green to
gr een and t he mesquite becemes thicker. The houses
change , too, from plain 1ynmetry and neatness in
the north to richer florid schemes and leas modest
color in the aouth. And poverty, from the highway ,
reveals itself in poorer sides of towns~ unadorned
h11111an prevalence over neatness of lawns and rigid
architectural geomet ry.
But the valley , by one measure, is not poor . Hidalgo
County, whose southern border is the Mexican Border,
it t he richest agricultural county in Texas , the 1econd
richest in the na tion , In its fertile ao i l grow
orruge t rees . grapefruit and eoentless t ypes of vegetables
, enough to feed millions and enough to make
rich men richer. For it is by the mea1ure of rich men
that Hidalgo is rich. Like corporate feudal lords,
they gather fortunes while seated in plush chairs a t
polished desks , breathing cool, filtered air; but
fortunes in carrot• and onions need more than clever
business deals, a warm 1un, and great holdings of
f ertile land. Wbat ' s needed. too . are abundant human
hands t ' cultivate a~d pick and to do so cheaply.
By the measure of the 70,000 agricultural workers
who live there , Hidalgo is one of the poorest counties
in the nation . There are efforts to build a
union. With few resources beyond their own deter~
ination, a group of far111WOrkera led by Antoaio Orendain
hat been trying to change what by now seems an
almost perm.anent situation by organizing strikes,
protests and marches . The Texas Farmworkers Union , La
Union de Campesinos de Texas, bas organized and
helped orgaaize many local strikes, the latest being
in the onion fields, where moat workers previou1ly
earned less than a doller an hour at the rate of 35c
per sack of onions. Last year, they marched 1, 500
ailes from their headquarters in San J uan to Washington,
O.C., to speak to Jimmy c~ rter . Carter ' s refusal
to listen was no aajor blow to people who had been
run over , 1hot at and j ai led for t heir efforts.
An openly gay man i s in the thick of the union ' s
s t ruggle . S•all and dark , with indian f eat ures and
a recent permanent. Jul io Coreii'o's eff eminacy i s one
with his s t rength and determination. Being a campesino
, a farmwerker , is more his life than hia occupation
, as i t was the life of his parents and his
grandparent1 . Boru in the Mexican state of Guanaj uato,
he has never been to school and speaks no Engli1h . Re
is sensitive and articulate on the 1ubject of his
life a1 a campe1ino and bis union, and tha t , as it
turn• out, was the 1ubject of the interview Enrique
LOpez and I held with him at his home in Mercede1,
Texas , on the eastern edge of Hidalgo County.
Although deeply political, Jul io'• community has not
yet politicized the subj ect of homosexua lity , and be
wa1 reluctant to discuss it in a political interview .
All the more important , then . is the obvious re1pect
his determination and energy have vOll him ati0ng hi•
colleagues. a respect that in itself ls hardly un usual
in practical situations in worki ng-class Mexican
a•d Chicano communities .
DAVID H:>RRIS: How much money do farmworkers make here
in the valley?
JULIO CORENO: You can't make money here, the sala ries
are very low, We never work forty hours a week,
much l ess overtime because they don't want to pay
lime-and-a-half.
O.M.: In other jobs it's onl y the f ather tha t works.
but here in the ha rvests i sn't it true tha t the
whole f amily usual ly works?
J.C.: Everyone always works, the f a ther , the mother,
the chi l dren , everyone. They have to t ake t hem to
work because you can 't earn enough pay to be able
to say, well , "I' ll be the onl y one to work ."
D.H. : So the childr en don't go t o school , or t hey
go only when they can?
J.C. : The way we were raised, our parents didn' t
send us to school because there weren' t any schools
on t he ranches ; t here was not hing, and even when the
governaent 1tart ed putt ing schools on the ranches,
parents didn't send their ehildren. Who c ould send
photo by Enrique LO'pez
Camuesino Julio Cor eno
their kids to school? It was better to have them
driving the oxen, or with the teaa; working the
soil; bringing firewood; bringing bay for the donkeys;
taking care of the goats or the pige~ or this
or that. They would eay that the schools were a
thing of the devil.
Now, when there are classes, when the schools are
open, the children don't go to work. But when they
get out of school, their parents are there to pick
them up and take them to work. Mothers take their
bable~ to work with them, too, because they don t
have enough money to have ~omeone else take care
of them. So there they are with their bottles, in
the sun1 in the wind, exposed to poisons from the
t4rk, to insecticides All that'i; veiy dangerous.
D.H.: So if the kids don t learn anything else,
they are &olng lo spend their lives working in the
field11?
J.C.: Well. at most, they finish high school; but
most etay to work la the fields. If all of the
food ie p'oduced by the campesinos, everything
the lower classes eat and the upper classes, and
all the communitie1, educated and not educated,
then it can't end,
So campesiooe have to exist anyway; if we're all
going to be educated and the government wants ua
all to go to 1chool, then what are all those educated
people going to do?
O.H. : What about technology? It is said that all
of that work is going to be done by aacbinee in
the future . So what's going to happen to campesinos?
J.C.: Yes, exactly. Host are going to be unemployed.
One machine does what hundreds of workers can do.
But many people have told ua that we should go to
school since the government has so many education
programs, and stop &ofn9 around like trouble-makers
and agitators. So why are we struggling? I tell
them that if education were enough to end all the
exploitation, if there wouldn't be any more explolted
campeaino• 1 I 'd go to school. But if I go
to school and, nevertheless, there is still eaploltatlon
for hundreds and hundreds who are out in
the fields, then what good does it do for me to go
to achoot? THEY still won't respect our opinions,
Only what THEY aay goes I can't say I don't like
thls work, or that'• not the right vay you're
dolng i t 1 can I? Just the way THEY say, that ' a the
wav it la. For example, in many states they've done
a~a y wlth the short hoe.
ENRIQUE LOPEZ: And in Texas? C~n they use the short
hoe?
J .C.: They've got us bowed down, and really bowed
down . If the boss comes to the field and we're not
bent over we ' re fired .
E.L.: Why do they use the short-handled hoe?
J.C. Welt, ideas that the bosses have. They think
the work is done bettec . Long hoes have always
worked well, but the bosses don't think so. If I
tell the boss or contractor I'm not going to work
with a short hoe and bring my own long-handled bee
from home, then they have a saw in the fields and
they cut it off.
And up in the northern states people say the
bosses don't give them short hoes. But I tell them,
don't think lt's becauae the boss loves you so
much. The boss has never loved us, all he loves
ls his big sack of money, that's all he wan ts.
People don't matter to him They want to have
people in stock, to have a lot of people of every
type, of every age, of every si~e, every kind of
people, Llke a basketful of apples, and from it the
buyer'\ the boas 1 whoever ia go in' to buy that mer -
chandlae, he's picking out and picking out, all
JULY 1978 GAY AUSTIN II
nu~ber one~ all number one, and all the number twos
and nUJ11ber threea he leaves there or he throw~
awav. They 'r e nn good, according to h i ~, because
he s gning to choose the best• That ' s the wav he
want~ us, the people, the ca~pes i nos. No, he
doesn't want tn have us that way, he has us that
way, dn you see? Because they pick the best and
the strongest, the ones th•t can do a lot of w~rk,
not the weake. ones.
They want to have a lot of people so when a
bunch die, or one dies) they put in ten more. One
dies, they put in ten more. They want to have extra
people like extra machines . They don't want to loee
the•, They're not going to lose, for example, ten
trailers of cantaloupes, ten trailers of whatever is
waiting there without ice and without being crated,
so it moves, it has to be moved.
D.M.: Is there a law protecting the workers from
insecticides, from poisone used in the fielde?
J.C.: The workers have none. That's why we make
~ese marches, and make these protests, and make
strikes . because the campesinos aren't protected,
O.H.: So for example if a group of workera is in a
field and a plane passes by spraying insecticides,
what happens?
J.C.: No-not " for example" ! They do pass and they
do 1pray ua.
D.H.: They don't pay any attention to the workers?
J .C.: No, they don't pay any attention to ua, because
ve don ' t have any laws to back us up. People
have even been killed in the fields by the planes
because they fly so lov that even if the people
lie on the ground they have been hit,
D.M.: How many years have you been doing this?
J.C . : Well, a~ for belng a cainpesinn, ay whole
ltfe because I don't know how to do anything else,
JU St fa l'lllW'Hk •
D.H.: From what age?
J,C , From the age of eight 1 wh ich is a child's
age, isn't Lt? I worked because we have always been
very poor, my pa renta have always been vecy poor. I
neve~ went to school. I ' ve never aeen a school from
the inside, juat from the outside> from the sldewalk.
D.H.: Some people say you worked harder than anyone
elee during the march to Waahington.
J.C.: Well, I can't say I was the hardest worker, because
who knowe? For me it was~ 't work at all . Although
I would work here and there and then I'd cook
for all the strikers and I'd distribute the newspape;
I'd distribute leaflets and I'd go around to the
houses and talk to the people.
E.L.: Some would be 111&rching and there would go Julio
nnd ao•e othera distributing papers 1 or they'd have
run forward, the marchers would paas by and they'd
run again, And the rest would be just marching and
1D&rching It's hard.
J.C.: For me it wasn't work since I'• used to it.
I'd even go ~arefoot And I never got a blister,
I'm used to walking around like that. Look, I think
I have ehough callouses .
E.L .: And a lot of people in the union would ~eke
fun of you because you're gay wouldn't they?
J .C.: Oh, yes. Well, no, They just ••• they likad t~
tn plav with me.
!.L.: And you loved it
J.C.: Oh, I did, yes .
E. L.: But they accepted you anyway.
J.C . : Oh, ye~, they had no reason not to accept me,
It's not against the law.
EL.: Do vou think the march lo Wa~hlngton was a
Kood idea even if you didn't get co talk to Carter?
J.C.: Well, I think it 1o·a1 a good idea even if lie
12 GAY AUSTIN JULY 1978
~sth~r's ?olll~n showed us whqt hApp<Pns when
(oh , •YI) AnitA finds h~r sons in bed together.
~as Dolph looking when we marched by hie mansion?
Ga Freedom Weel
UD
...
The parade's front banner 1a C&rrled wit~ pride down to ~ooldridr.e P~rk
Gav Austin in celebration ...
9y ART HORRIS
Traditlonelly celebrated during t..h• hat veek of June,
C•y rreed09 Week vat ob•arved thh year June 19·26
The "**k c~ratea the ninth anruvareary of the birth
of the .odera C.y Liberation eov•e.nt in Merica. Oil
JUE1e 24, 1969 gay •n and l41bl1n1 fought back la tbe
face of pollce haraaAent at the Stonewall Iruti on
Cbrhto,har Street in Nev York Clty Por three coo ...
afleuttve day1 there v•t beavy atre1t -.ctivlty vitb
bonfire• and rioting, At an lmMdlate reault the
gay people of the area felt me.atonal relief. But
there were long ter• re1ult1 which are 1till being
tel•
Ault ln ha• ob1erved Cay Prlde Week regularly ainca
1971. That year there was a picnic a t Wooldridge
Patlt followed by a Mrch to the C.tp1tol and a rally
and vorkehop1 on tbe ground1. lach year •lnc:e then
bat te:en 1oee observanc.a of the occa.ton.
Wltb a•Y prlde being tf'lcraalinsly ln evidence c::hrouab·
out the co111ntry vbUe gay fretdoa ii continually
threatened vlth referenda by Anita Bryant, Clay Smoth·
er1. H.trold 0 'Che1ter • .tnd Cal Ue»tnia' • Sen John
lrtss•, lt lt eaey to undautand vhy C1y Praado• Week
h cahbuced throughout. \lhtn our freedom h in J•o ·
patdv, ve ftel the need to proclal• lt all the •r•
vah.,.tntty.
Thh year 11 Cav Preedoe weak Celabntlon began
vlth Gay Praec:to- Nlg.ht at the Private Cellar on
Sunhy. There vas free beer and &uitar playlng.
Wednesday, J1.1na 21 .. , the Au1tln pr•lar of
\lord 11 Out tha neve1t doc\.l.IMnta ry of 11,ay people ln
AM'f1U. The 1hovlng ••• • ba.naf ll for the Au1tin
"""'' " 1\iRht• Coalltion '"t on by the Doble ScrHnt.
A vorlt1hop conducted by Crag Calvert of the Austin
e~n. ligb.ta Coa lition dealt wlth gay •en end cruil·
inA He u.aed .. thod1 of encC)unt:t:r and dilcu11ion la
racognhlng fa.ellng1 htld by Noy MD
Tbe traditloo1l .. rch •nd rally took. place oa Sat·
urday. At uoon about tvo lu.andt"ed pe.ople .. rchad from
rtnt Street up Congre11 to 1neventh Street over to
Cuad•lupe and down to Wooldridge Park. Several block•
long. the lively pa••d• pro3re11ed without •hh1p.
the only for. of lliar•••••nt caae on the ,art of one
APO police officer who inthted on. crowding the
.. rcheo together and ru1hin& the pace of the parade.
A. 1treet d..tnce took place Saturday night on 2lrd
Street at c_be People' 1 len• t11anca tc.rk.etplace vlth
•u1lc by Little l•• 200 to lOO people a ttended the
dence, lncludln• aeveral avo•ed hetero1e1ruala lut
pot tee forced lh• band to 1top ,taytng a t 1L40 , ••.•
ctttna a clty ordinance forbidding at1:plltlad •ullc tn
'ublla places after 8:00 p. •·
Cey Preedoe Wttek concluded on Monday, June 2& "tth a
P'Ottrv uadlng by Texa1·ba1ed le1t;bian1 and gay ••n a t
l•ther' s Pool, Aeong tt'lo1e ,resent "'' Hou•toa poet
Joaeph Loeax.
All in all. Cay Preedoe Waek, 1978- "as a a ... cce11, vtth
..,,,, p1rtlclpation by aore gey people. than ever before.
"• ve coee •long vay it.nee 1969-·e.ve.n lf together ve
l:ri ave tha t •UCh fatther to ao .
Jl,;L'!" 1978 CAY AL'STIN 13
KPr@'8 R picture to 9en0 home to Ko~.
14 GAY AUSTIN JULY 1978
Backstage with Anita
ly llilVI! lfEVILLI
"And, r••b•r llavarand, tell all of your good peo•
pl• to pray for the victory of repeal in Wichita and
!ugene " With tho•e words Anita Bryant ended bar
"testimony" at Au1tin'1 Municipal Auditorium on May
7. Sha then valked out of a vell-protectad rear exit
of the building arm-in-arm with Harold O'Chaster of
Allandale Baptist Church, A waiting car took
Bryant and her entourage to the airport; they vere
escorted by two city motorcycle policemen and one
1quad car,
I had bean waiting backstage at Muni three hoars for
an opportunity to talk with the Florida orange juice
queen (it 1a .. ad like years while watching the
"Church service" and her performance). Her tightly
acheduled, three hour visit had prohi~ited a personal
interview vhich I tried arranging months in adyanca
through bar office (The Fi1her1 of Men) in
tu.mi.
Part of ae didn't vant to be anywhere near or have
anything to do with Bryant, her ahov or O'Cheater'a
peculiar for• oe worship. It was a1 if to vitne11
(uaed in the non-religious 1en1e) their spectacle
would 1ive 1ot1e validity to it.
The Breakfast Festival for Buman Rights was being
held aimultaneou1ly down by Town Lake near the Auditorium.
The one tbou1and happy end gay people were
there sharing in something which 1, too, wanted to
be a part of: a celebration of solidarity in oppos·
ing Bryant'• great eagerneas to deny gay1 and women
~ual ri&ht• in living their lives a1 they want to
a1 they must.
But indeed there I was in the wings of the stage at
Municipal Auditorium shaking the hand of one of the
vorld'a most famous homophobes, Anita Bryant Green,
before she aade her first entrance. I had been per-
1uadad by the voyeur in •e to observe Anita in ac•
tion. I was e1king her if we could talk for a few
minutes after the "service" was over, and 1he had
agreed to a short meeting with the pres•. Bryant
had made a point of telling me that her appearance
va1 strictly a religious one, and in no way polit·
ical, although I hadn't asked any question that
pro-.ted the comment.
The one•tiae first runner•Uf in a Hiss America con•
test had arrived at about 10:00 a.m. -- 45 minutes
before her portion of the "service" began. One city
policeman had been guarding the rear entrance to
the auditorium for an hour before Bryant's arrival.
But the low-key and easy-going backstage mood set
by so.e rather disinterested lighting, sound and
television technicians bad altered radically vhen
a beefy contingent of eight additional policemen
came on the scene at 9:45 a .m. They checked the
creditentials of anyone who (like myself) wa1
straggling around on the stage or who did not look
particularly enthralled with Reverend O'Chester 11
haranguing of the audience for donations.
THE ARRIVAL
The police received a radio •essage when the Bryant
party was a five •inute drive away from the auditorium
(having arrived at the airport) , The good
vor4 vas given to an expectant O'Cheater vho had
been pacing to and fro b1ckstage whenever he left
his rostrum on stage, hands tightly clasped like a
nervous new father. While on stage he had managed
to present a different persona -- that of the cool.
collected preacher.
A local television news camera team caught the scene
as Anita Bryant walked in, O'Chester at her side
Profe11ional all the way (from the experience of
countless orange juice co11111ercials, no deubt),
Bryant looked directly into the caJDera, smiling and
photo by Alen Pogue
lllOUthing "hell o."
The show sorry I did mean " service11
-- went on
building t o a climax while Anita prepared herself.
She finally appeared in an all-white lace and cot ton
gown, looking like an old-time country girl on the
way to the town Sunday picnic, She walked around
backstage humming to herself and checking her of trepeated
Bible reference• on the lit tle notecards
sbe carr i ed.
4. •• I'YA - AN E?{'!'ER!'AI!'IER
At the designated time (the audience hav ing been
properly primed), Reverend O'Chester introduced
Anita1 then walked to the side of the stage to escort
the star of the service on . The opening number was
"Give me an Old-fashioned • " which made her gown
take on the significance of a costume. And as soon
as she &ta r ted singing with tha t orange-selling
voice . the purpose of her participation was uncovered
for all to see.
Bryant ls an en t ertainer who sings about Cod and
throw ~ in some occas s ional political co111111entary between
numbers, just as some other show-person might
deliver jokes between songs . But she never once
made a direct ref e r ence to gays. homosexuals, or
femin ists during the show, Ra th ~r, she would repeatedly
chant about "mil itant radica l groups" which
thr eaten "the chil dr en," "the r-ily" and the
righteous order of society. Ani t a manuf actured some
genuine- l ooking tears but was subt l y able to turn
them on and off a t will, and the audienc e c r ied
righ t along wi th her. She was aood. She was so good
that s he was ecary .
Bryant and her homphobic clones (such as O'Chester)
have memorised a string of formulaic phrases u1ed to
describe the danger of those "militant radical group
groups." Anita 's "testimony" would have r ead like
exc er pts from the choicest coaaents in her Playboy
interview (May, 1978) .
There wer e a few dissenters am0ng the true-believers
i n the audi enc e . But whenever t hose i ndividuals
shouted out a retort to Anita's prenouac .. ents,
those c r ies for reason or tolerance were dr owned out
in a sea of applause for whatever quip an ampl ified
Anita would answer back .
nHAT ' S BEHI ND I T ALL?
In an i nt erview one week prior to Bryant' s visit,
Harold O'Chester said that he had i nvited her to
participat e in the special Allandale Baptist "aer vice"
a t Hunfci pa l Auditorium "fer no part i cular
rea s ~n . We invited Anita Bryant basically because
tthe ' s ver y prominent ." He went on to l ist the ot her
celebrat ed na tional " religious" figures who had appeared
in t he past . i nc l uding Ji1111y Carter (vhile
governor of Georgia), Charles Colson and Pat Boone,
among others ,
Reverend O' chester has a clear view of wha t the rol e
of hh church i n the co-unity should be: "Our job
is to permeat e the commu•i t y, Jesus said ve oagbt to
be salt. Salt fl avors a co .. unity -- salt keeps the
rot tenness out . If my church can' t .. ke an ethica l
and moral impact on t he C08111uai ty, t hen we ought to
quit being wha t ve are."
Although sbe was invited to appear in Au1tin "for
no particular reason ," other than being pr0tainent,
Bryant reiterated tha t ahe bad co•• onl y to ahare
JULY 197Q GAY AUSTIN 15
her religious " testi mony f or a cburch service ,"
during tbe ahort press conf erence aft erwarde . When
t old about t he Br eakf ast Festival being held outs i de ,
Anita s aid " Well, I doo 't know wha t they're upaet
about • • • They have their opinion and I have a ine; but
I '• not here on any one particul ar isaue per se, but
to shar e the hope for •ftJ'Oae who' s wi lling to look
at an l1m1e>ral life atyla aa s i n , and that'• true for
any kind of sin . I'm noc j us t against the ain of
homosexuality."
In the world of 0 1Chester and Bryetrt. there a re , ob viously,
no clear demar ca tiona between the realms of
r e ligion , politics and ente rta inment , Crusades
throughout history have always fus ed those first two
el ements , and the third i s an addi t ion of our distraction-
fi l l ed age of t el evi sion. To get a ttention.
an event must have some enterta i nment value . And
Bryant and her spoa sors know hov to succ eed on that
count .
Al l endale Baptist Church had a specific reason for
inviting Ani t a Bryant - - r ega rdl ess of vhat O'Chester
sa id . She i s a nationa l. political f igurehead for
t ha t element of American society which is f ed up with
"liberalizing" soci al changes. It's no revelation
t ha t a strong r eactionary movement i s well undervay
~hese days , and tha t t act ics employed by l iber al
c auses of the a ixties are being miaicked with success.
But there's a vital difference between the polit :c al
role rel igious l eaders pl ayed a decade ago and the
role of Br yant and O'Cbest er today.
HUMA :~ RIGHTS IS THE ISSUE
The former ac tively cont ributed a 110ra l and ethical
underpinni ng of aulti -deooaioatioaal aupport to the
politic s of equal rights for blaclta , cbicano1 and
VOS1en , and in oppos i t ion to t he war in Vietn&11 .
Today, t he politics of rel igion is the deaial of
rights for gays; the denial of a ..,...n •e right to
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photos by Harvey Neville
TEXAS
GAV
CONFERENCE
FIVE
ROVAL COAClt INN
DALLAS
JUNE 10 and 11
By KELLY KAY
Cav women and men from across the state met together
ln Dallas June 9-ll for TeYas Gay Conference V1 held
ln Dallas' R~yal Coach Inn,
After a welcnm!ng cocktail partv Fr iday evenlng, t he
Q" nfe rence be~an with a po~errut addre~a f 1orn 8 1onklyn
prof es ao1 nf urban politics G nny Apu7 P ~ who ls
cu1tenllv running for the New York Staie Assembly.
In her speech Apuzzo called for• new aelf-unde r atand1ng
wlthin the gay movement. "I'm not convinced
we ' ve gotten over i;elf-hate," the former co•chair of
the Cay Rights National Lobby said.
' "No one ever clel .. ates power
... because It's •orally right"
- Ginny Apuzzo
JULY 1978 GAY AUSTIN
~ilK , A~a~or , Apuzzo , Lee Knapp (con~erenc~ cochairoersor~ Deitsch , Steve
Wilkins {cor.~erence cochairperson)
Apuzzo al•o c al l ed for gay activist's acknowledgement
of our clear l y self- int e re•ted motive for
fighting the homophobia which would deprive us of
our human rights. "We' re not in this for altruistic
rea1on1," •he • • id .
Apuzzo explained that the movement must operate from
the principal "where there h oppression, I am oppressed
." She expressed a personal fear that gay men
will forget about iesbian1 once the males have won
their rights.
Apuzzo also expressed her concern tha t the gay movement
rallies around every new referendum at the expense
of forming alternattve1 more positive strategies
.
Kathy Deitsch, moderato r of the Texas Gay Task
Force, sponsor of the conference, outlined the task
force 's flve point plan for the next legislat ive
session (see a rticle, page 7). Task force coordinator
for the central region Woody Egger expl ained the
pl an ' a strategy to restrict the 1urlsdiction of
Section 21,06 (the ~odomy l aw) to ac t s committed in
public, The pl an' s succ ess wi l l legalize homosexual
acts commit red in priva t e between consenting adults.
Ca rn! Phe l en, an eight year vete ran of the Sta t e
Legisl a ture1 instructed the conf erence on the
subt let ies of t he legislative process.
Aft er a dts .. 1 l unch provided by the Royal Coach
Inn, the conferencees went i nto va r ious workahop
sess iona f ro11 "Teachers and Homosexuality" to
" Long-term Relationahipa" .
Sat urday evening, openly gay San Franciaco City/
County Superviaor Harvey Hi lk d i •cus sed hi1 caapaign
i nd hi1 t enure to date in off i ce ,
Hilk also i ntroduced the f ilm "Gay USA," which doc -
Don Amador
UJ11ent1 the 1977 Cay Pride Day Pa rade held in San
Fr ancilco .
Sunday Don Amador, who teach•• gay 1tudies at 1everal
achool1 in Loi Angele• , delivered a talk en•
titled "Cay Sociological and Cul t ural Roota."
Amador is the r ecent ly appo i nted gay lia i son on
L.A. Mayo r TOCI &radley' s ataff .
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20 GAY AUSTIN JULY 1978
~'EWS BRIEFS continued from oage 9
areas . A •ajorlty of the committee members supported
a set of proposals that call homosexual acts "sinful ."
One such proposal counsels Presbyterlans that ''our pre•
sent underatandlng of God'• Wlll precludes the ~rdination
of persons vbo do not repent of ho1DOsexaal practice."
Yet another stat .. ent urged those in char~e of revieving
candidates for the •inistry not to make• specific
inquiry into the "sexual orientation or prac t ica '' of a
candi'8te vho has not declared hia or her sexual preference.
The report also contained a condeainetion of the "videspread
contempt fo~ homosexual persons thet prevails
in our eociety1' and voiced strong support for lawe upholding
civil rights for homosexuals. However, while
not ordaining declared homosexuals, the church vill
welcome "such parsons 11 as 111embers.
NYC 'S FIRST GAY COrt;.¥.UNITY CENTER OPENS
The first gay c01111Unity center in New York City, to be
called the Triangle Gay Community Center, wa1 formally
dedicated at ceremonies on June 24. Created by the Hetropol
itan Community Church of Nev York at its offices
on the third floor of 26 Ninth Avenue, the epace vill
house not only church activities but programa of tha
West Side Di1cus1ion Group, the Christopher Street Liberation
Day Committee, units of Gay Over-eaters and Alcbbolic1
Anonymous. therapy groups and rap groups of
all kinds.
GAY TF.ACHER REINSTATED IN NYC
NE'W YORK -- Sallie Herson has been officially rein1ta•
ted to a teaching position for the Nev York City School
Board of Education. She had been released f roai ~er job
as peer-group counselor at Walton High School in the
Bronx in Nov .. ber of 1976, just days after sharing
vith 1tudent1 in a rap group discu•aion that •he va1
a lesbian.
Officials of the United Federation of Teachers and the
Board of Education have issued statement& in support of
the employment rights of hOCDOsexual teachers, The i ssue
in thia case vas whether it is permissible for teachers
to openly •cknovledge, in the classroom , a ho1110sexual
l i festyle. With this decision, the Board has clarified
it• position,
The init i al incident toek place in late October of 1976.
The student initiated topic of homosexuality led to a
frank conve rsation in which Hs. Herson shared vith t he
students t hat she lived with another woman and their
sh children.
With support from the G•y Teache · s Association and the
legal counsel of the Nev York Civil Libertie ~ Union ,
H~ Her,on f l ied suit in federal court last August 1 charging abridgement of her constitutional rights by
the NYC Board of Education. In i eaponfie to this sui t ,
the Board initiated an informal hearing procedure i n
October, 1977 . As a result, it was determined tha t Ms .
Herson should be returned to a teaching position. Ar rangements
were recently completed and she is pre1encly
teaching in a junior high school.
SEATTLE IN TURl·:OlL CV;<R
A :~~lD IS:RIM INA TION ORDINA NCE
Both ~ve Our Heral Ethics (SOME) , led by hOC110phobic
Seattle policeman David Eates , and gay r ights supporters
' Citizens to Retain Fair Employment (CRFE) are
f iring off volleys in the battle to repeal t he city' s
anti-di1criaination ordinance . SOME i s attempting to
collect 17,626 valid signatures by August 1 ~ ~put Initiative
13 on the November ballot.
SOHE's Hay 24 advertisement in an area newspaper hea~lined
"Ten Reasons for Repealing Seattle's Homosexual
uw," lilts statements such as: "Homo1exuals account
for half the murders and suicides in large cities."
"Half of the nation's syphillis comes fr m homosexuals. "
"A great 111&ny homosexuals are classified as suicidal
unemployables and therefore qualify for welfare, and
are thus living off the American people ."
Protect America ' s Children, Anita Bryant's organizatlon,
has contributed $3,000 to SOME, while the Play-
THE TUBS
boy Foundation gave $2,000 to CRFE. Cay activiats charge
tha t the police are in c ahoots with the pro -Ini ti ative
l ) forces after Liquor Board enforc ement officers i aisued
citations for violations of the lav to opera tors
of the Honaa try, where a fundr a ise r to fight the anti ·
gav init1 at1ve wa< t aking pl ace.
Heanwh le CRFE l • prepar ing a poll design.ed en measure
voter a w~ renes< of the i ssues at stake and to find out
just h~w Seattle c1ttiens f eel ab• ut gay people
The proposed lni a tive differs from those in the four
cities where repeals nave passed. I t would, lf passe4 ,
also remove from Seattle's Off1ce of Women's R1ghts
al l enforcement powers for discr1mination cla1ms baaed
on sex, ma tital st atus and sexual prefe rence. Jur11 -
diction wou l d pass to the city's over l oaded Human
Rights Depa rtment. In addit ion , the passage of the
E t es ordinanc e woul d not a ff ec t the c i ty' s t eacher s
aince Seattle public schoo l s are not governed by city
ordlrianc es,
An appeal brief before the 5th Circuit Cour t of Appeals
has been filed in behalf of three Texas A6.M students,
members of the Gay Student Service Organi zation. Tne
brief filed by J, Patrick Wiseman, a Houston Attorney ,
a ske the court to agree with three other circuit court
decisions -- the 1st 4th. and 8th -- and allow gay o r ganu:
at lons on ca:np,us The o.rig1nal suit, filed three
years ago had beeP dismissed by a Houston Federa l
)Udp.t
The facultv of Ynle Law School in New Haven (Connect!·
cut) has voted to pralect gav students from discrimin ation
bv law firms and other recruiters Yale ls the
second law choo l in the counrrv to adort such a mea sure
rhe words 'seYua l o rten t a ti,., n" wi 11 he added to
the exlstin~ pol icv tha t s afeg ua rds a11 a 1n<>t dtscrim1n a
t t >n ~>n •he ha !>iS of s e ~, race, n" ti,1nal .,r i g1n, and
re l ~to s bel e f~. Law tirm~ found in v1ol at1•n of the
st a Lement mav nlt use the s e rvic es of the l aw scnnol.
Lamoda Leaa l D ~ f ens e and Educ ation Fund I nc. of New
York recenLly represent ed a non • tenured profe <>sor a t
Pennsylvania Sta t e Un1ver aity in a hearing before a
f aculty committee with 1e spect to his di smissa l on
charges inc l udi ng one tha t ne was " an admitted homosexual."
The dismissal was in violation of a pos i tion
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in defenae of gay people t aken by t he Pennayl vania
Chap t e r of the Aaerican As aoc i a t ion of Un iveraity Prof
easora .
Ac ting upon t he recOG1111endat i on of the co ... ittee, t he
president of Penn State has dec 1ded t o reinst ate the
professor and award appropria t e damages .
The University of H11sou r i has paid Cay People's Union
$10,385 in court coats as a r esult of the decision in
the 8th Circuit Cour t of Appeals tha t gave the group
campus recognition. The U. S. Supreme Court refused
to r ev iew the c ase, thus allowing the lover court rul
i ng to stand . Officials of the university have asked
the Supreme Court for a rehearing on its refusa l 1 but
auch rebea rlngs a re 1arely grant ed.
international. .. ·
AIX·EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE -- A criminal court sentenced
three men tc prison terms for raping two avowed Lesbians
four yeara a~o in a landmark decision which
their lavyers said established for the first time
"tha t rape is a crime" in France.
Although r ape ls llsted as a felony in French legal
st a tu tes the trial ma rked the first time a rape case
was heard by a crimina l court before a jury without add
l t lonal criminal charges. such as armed robbery, accompanyins
the indictment,
ln the past, rape cases in France were tried as simple
misdemeanors by a Judge without a jury in c losed door
aeirnions .
RODY POLITIC ro co ro
CASADIAS SUP~EME corr.r
Tc cd t•1 t The B dy P'l•Lic &\e annP need
t Al t C\ will bo t~ tne Supre~~ C urt of Canada
lr. a btd to q as. t'le !:earch arrant u ed to ald
the o rnal s ,ffice last December JG.
Clavton R .. b~ t e paper s le6 al c • .msel has been
instructed to seek leave t<> appeal tne d1smisi;al
by the Ontario C,urt of Appeal of an earlier TBP
move to quash the ~arrant on April 14 .
At Lnat time, a three· man panel of Ontario's highest
court 1cfused to interfere with the March l5
ru l in~ of Mr Justice Garrett to the effect that the
warrant used in the ra id was legal
The move ls described as 11 "stand against growing
police powers" in the ~ay issue of t he gay libera tio1
newsmaga7ine pub l ished Mav 5,
"The rccert r ev alat ions of growing pol ice crime·w11rrant
less br e11k1·1!} theft and 8"<:on a!llOng other
actlvitie~--arc frighte rdng to 8 lot nf pe.,ple ,,
.;11'cl TSP c,llective 'Ile-:iber Ed J;ick!i'"· "If our
f >ht ng thi 11ct'nn can hel p f~cus Attention on the
evtent of p ~'icc power i n thi s country, t~ en our Rppeal
t' the Su p re~e CnJrt will have been 3us tlftcd.•
:iews br ief s cont inued on page 22
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22 GAY AUSTIN JULY 1978
NEWS BRIEFS continued from page 21
Pink Triangle Preel!> publisher of TB~ ls claiming tha t the warrant vis ill•aal because lt vas 10 1
vaguely worded as to allow the police to take anything
they v i abed. In fact., the P"' lice seized twelve
cartons of aatariab inclu•ing 1ub1cription lists and
.. nuacript&. Tb• raid prot1ptad expressions of concern
fr .. a wide variety of groups and individuals including
Book• in Canada editor Douglaa Marshal!, broed·
caater June Callvood. the Canadian Civil Liberties
Aaaociation, and eight Toronto city aldermen . ?be
ANITA • • • continued from page 15
cbooae abortion or to be coaati tutioaally guaranteed
of .. aal riabta. D\aria1 tbe pre11 coaference after
ber perforuaca, lryaat apoka to this 1'int quite
clearly: "I jaat know that we cannot leghlata
morality, but I think it 11 tille •• atopped legialat•
i•a i-rality."
Anita daacribed bar initial 80tivation to oppo1e gay
righta beginning with that ill·f .. ed Dade County ordinance
aa a fight to "repeal apecial privilege laws
which would take away the conatitutional rights of a
aajority of Americans That iasue (in Dade County)
would have made it .. ndato1y that private , religioua
school• hire flaunting homosexuals. That's a very
religious . bigoted (lie) law." "And," she continued.
"what they (gays) want to do on a national bait.a ii
to uae theae lava to push 9o9osexuality a1 an alternative
lifHtyle."
Anita al8o1t bit the truth in that last stat .. ent ,
but ahe errs in her usage of the verb "to puah ." Gays
are not trying to push anything on anyone . Yat we do
want to bave our way of life accepted as an al t ernative
lifestyle, and not be diacriminated against or
left outside the protection of (or persecuted by)
the lav for being what we are.
JULIO CORENO ••• continued from page 11
di dn ' t t alk to us1 because for us~ for me, for the
u ion, we weren't goi ng because we were so anxious
to see ht., because after 111 we weren't going to
kiss him, What mattered wa1 t a lking to the people,
to the poor people, to every class of people, poor
and not poor. to anyone who would support us. That
wa1 our i dea .
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action vaa 1110 protested by members of the gay
co .. unity in places as far eway •• London, San
Fr1nciaco and Melbourne, Auatralia. aa well ••
all across Canada,
In a recent devalo,.ent, ?BP bas learned that the
police have obtained a judge'• authorization to
retain the .. terials 1eized for a further 12-.onth
period. The paper vae not permitted even to argue
against the court application for thia authorization.
Anita spoke about her concern over homosexuality a1
a mother . Sha h11 felt ce111pelled to take a political
atand against gay right• in order to protect her
children (and everybody elae'a} . When asked if she
really recognized the degree of difference and the
not totally logical connection between her political
atance (and note, it'• not• reli9ious one nov) and
her concern 1s a mother, Bryant loat aome of the
compoaure 1he had maintained until then and said
"they (gays) are under the constitution. IP THEY
DON'T FLAU?n' THEIR BO'C>SEXUALITY, THEY II.Wit THE SAME
RIGHTS AS ANYONE EL.5E," As long as gays are "in the
closet," they ire not offending Anita and thus endangering
her children.
The hundrPda of people standing out by Town Lake on
that muggy Sunday morning had ceraainly been focusing
their celebration and peaceful protest on the right
issue -- h6-an rights. For Anita Bryant i1 asking
UA to hide our1elves 10 that we don't offend her ind
threat en her rights by asserting our own. Of course,
those people didn't have to be inside to hear that
message -· it has been heard before and will be
beard again,
Reprinted with pet'lQission from The Daily Texan,
copyright 1978 .
TIE STIJJ.101
BOOIST8BE
706L6th Street
AUSTJK. TEKAS
Play ball!
gay athletic clubs form across the state
By BILLY FRAZIER
Have you heard the talk about a Pan-Texas Gay
Att lellc Championship? It i11 mote than just talk.
Already the Montrose Sports Association of Houston,
the Turtle Creek Athletic Club 1f Dallas.
and the newly developing Capitol City Athletic Club
o[ AuRtln have been engaging in rousing and intense
athletic competltlon involving volleyball in each
of the three cities. Dallas held the first tennis
tourney in June. Gay People of West Texas (GPWT)
from the Lubbock area also participated last year .
San Antonio, Galveston, Corpus Christi and other
cities will aoon get the message about how much
fun is to be had on (and off) the playing fields
and will want to organize their ovn tea111S .
Tournament• are u1ually played during the day on
weekends with the 1ponaoring city also hosting
vi1itor1 to all 1orts of social soirees, poolside
parties, and dining excursions, and in addition to
the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,"
these pan-Texas get-togethers foster excellence among
accomplished as well as aspiring gay athletes.
Especially noticeable i1 a camaraderie among the
participant~ which is truly heart-warming. After
all. any time the two legendary Texas rivals, Dall••
and Houston , cAn npend the mejority of two days to•
gether vlthout coming away with bleedy fangs and
fingernails, you have to admit that a marvelous feat
of inter-city diplomacy has occurred,
This rather recent development (starting last spring)
of sports interest in the gay conmunity has been so
encouragin;that plans are nov being made to expand
into other popula1 types of competition; for evample .
organizing team1 for baseball. swimming, and diving ,
~a rathon 1aces, f i eld spo i t s , g~lf and other area~
wh er e the1e i r e n o ~,;h · nl eres t and pa1tic i p1llion to
~ake Lt excl t !rcg and challeng ln3,
How do YOU join the fun and games? Simply contact
the o •ganizers in your city for more information,
If Lhere is no present organization, start talking
It up with athlete~ you know and then approach a
local gay service organization, or local bar, for
support : or s imply organh.e yourselv'es. For helpful
hints and guidelines visit a city that already
has it together and ask them for useful information.
In Dallas , go by Revershon Park (off Turtle Creek
Blvd . ) on Sunday afternoon around Spm. In Houston,
try Cherryhurst Park (off Ridgewood and Cherryhurst
St.) on Sunday afternoon around 5pm. In Austin,
come by Ramsey Park (off 44th and Burnet) on Sunday
from 5 to 7pm.
...
All of us who are already involved invite all of
you to join us. We need more athletic representation
for all major Texas cities, and also more sideline
supporters (where we've been told there is
more "1'ction" than on the field). And, after all,
what would American sports events be without a
cheering section of beer guzzlers on hand? The
ne~ t Aust l n-Dsltas-Houston Tournament will be held
the flrst Saturday and Sunday in August in the
Capitol City, Details will be publl~hed later.
Come on out--brlng your friends--and enjoy the
ga'lle.
In Austin, Geo rge (owne r and ope rator of the Private
Cellar) Is generously donatin0 (in the name of
good sportsmanship , of course) a free keg of beer
lo lighten spirit~ every second and fourth Sunday
at Ramsey Park. This kind of support (team T-shirts ,
fiee beer , political donations and who knows what
else) furtheri ng gay community activities ls to be
highly commended and deeply appreciated. We thank
you, George.
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AN EXTENSIVE COU.ECT I ON OF (] rns AND CURf{NCY
OOLD JE\£LRY FIU1 JU OVER TI£ hGRLD
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WITH THIS AfJ,
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Wo~e nsoace orograma "Women ' s Health: Abcrtion,"
Ginny Cleaver from A, stin Women ' s
Health Collective; Jane Hertel from Re productive
Services .
National ERA March for extension and
rat ification . Washington , D.C. C~ll
(202) 737-2295 for more information,
Society for the Advancement of Freed om
and Equ::tlity special meeting. Ca.11 Woody
Egger for details,
Womenspace program1 "Considerin~ ~ erv icPs
for Battered Women , " Lois Ahrens ::inr.I Joy
Ruth,
Deadline f or contributions to GA "' il!:S:';:J ,
GAY COfl:rtUNITY SERVICES rr on t h l.Y meet ing .
2330 Guadalune, 8 om.
V~ ~linic snonsored by the Stat e DPnartment
of Health, Private Celhr, ~ lub 31 ths
and GCS. Free for men and ~ omen , ~ 1ub
Austin, Joe w. 16th, 10 pm to midnight .
\',l')mencoace orogr;;im: "The New Viet N::im."
Chris Cunningham , director of the Uni versi
ty Y, will report on her recent trio to
Viet N-.im .
Womenspace program1 "Women 's Music , "
Gail Lewis and Ruth Huber will play
original music (guitar and piano).
LEGAL SERVICES
at reasonable fees
The Legal Clinic charges $15 for your 1n1tial consultation ses
aion with en attorney There is no time 1tm1t If you want or n~
•dd1toona1 services we will supply you with a written tee quota
tlon If you don't wlah to go on With a case alter c onsulta t i on
)'Ou are under no lurtner obugauon
t UNCONTESTl!O DIVORCE (NO PROPERTY OR CHILDREN) S SI()
• UNCONTESTED OIVORCE {WITH PROPERTY OR CHILDREN I 150
• UNCONTESTED DIVOl!CE fWlfH Pl!OPEllTY & CHILDREN 17.S
• NAME CHANGE 4S
t MfllKRUPTCY, INDIVIDUAL 225
•BANKRUPTCY. HUSBAND ANO WIFE 275
t SIMPl.E WILL, INDIVIDUAL 40
•SIMPLE WILLS, HUSBAND ANO WIFE eo
The leg•l f ... quoted above do not Include court costs. These
,_ •re tor caae• ffled In Travis County between .June 1, 1978 and
Soptombe<l,1978. Feea for legal work OU1Sk:le of Travl• County
wlll be higher. The Leg•I Clinic also accepts crlmln•I caae • •nd
clvll c•••• not llated above Pl••- call for an appo1ni,,_,t No
l• g•I advice wlll be given over the telephone.
Hour•· 0 00 5:00 weekday• \l\!8el<ends and evenltig8 by ap
PQlntment .
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Legal Clinic at 501 W.12th St.
Austin, Texas 78701
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